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Author : Joseph Goss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Frontier Cabin Story written by Joseph Goss and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Goss
Publisher : Peace Corps Writers
ISBN 13 : 9781935925958
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Frontier Cabin Story: The Rediscovered History of a West Virginia Log Farmhouse written by Joseph Goss and published by Peace Corps Writers. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joseph Goss digs into the origins of his ancient home to discover its age and first owner. After months of painstaking detective work, he finds the holy grail of his search. Along the way, the author creates an enthralling story about an unknown frontier house and gives it context by weaving it into the sweep of the region's history from colonial times to the present. Colorful characters from the families of the house's earliest owners populate the story and act on the stages of the French and Indian, Revolutionary, and the Civil Wars. They even take us out to the Osage Nation in Missouri and to Mexico. The women, in particular, reveal themselves in striking detail through never-before-published personal letters from primary sources. Besides stories of the early owners, Goss uncovers tales-some humorous, some gruesome-from the lives of the farmhouse's tenants. Glimpses of slavery surface from multiple historical documents. The author recounts the physical history of the log house in generous detail, tracking changes to it over more than 230 years. This unique book features 28 illustrations, including maps, drawings, and photographs. Comprehensive footnotes substantiate the author's research. Appendices put forth deed extracts and family trees. An extensive index completes the volume. Frontier Cabin Story adds a new dimension to the investigation of little-known historical houses, not only in West Virginia but in other regions too. Goss aspires not merely to tell his venerable old house's story but to convince future owners to value and preserve it. On a larger scale, he hopes this book will inspire others to prize age-old dwellings and to listen to their voices by showing the wealth of material they too can discover about them.
Author : Robert Thompson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584011X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book A Woman of Courage on the West Virginia Frontier written by Robert Thompson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Robert Thompson recounts the harrowing story of Phebe Tucker Cunningham, from her marriage at Prickett's Fort to her return to the shores of the Monongahela. Life on the West Virginia frontier was a daily struggle for survival, and for Phebe Tucker Cunningham, that meant the loss of her four children at the hands of the Wyandot tribe and being held captive for three years until legendary renegades Simon Girty and Alexander McKee arranged her freedom. Thompson describes in vivid detail early colonial life in the Alleghenies and the ways of the Wyandot, providing historical context for this unforgettable saga.
Author : Karen Murphy
Publisher : That Patchwork Place
ISBN 13 : 9781564775887
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Log Cabin Quilts written by Karen Murphy and published by That Patchwork Place. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kari August
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Cabin at Jackson Hole written by Kari August and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Kari August: "Entertaining, original, exceptionally well written . . . impressive storytelling talents." Midwest Book ReviewAva Butterfall, once well-to-do, is plunged into financial difficulty with the passing of her only close relative. For the first time in her life, she must find work. Though usually smart as a whip, Ava gamely accepts a position in the rugged frontier of Wyoming--not wholly realizing what awaits her. Little does she expect within a year to be so wandering utterly lost, that she must seek shelter at an isolated, mountain cabin.Hesh Schodde is not pleased about the stranger who appears at his door. He has begun anew in the remote location of Jackson Hole precisely because he wants to forge a simpler path and get away from people Appealing Ava will only be a distraction for the cowboys he has brought along to help build his ranch and another concern for him to watch over.Yet as Ava and Hesh circle each other warily, they find themselves fighting together as the perils of nature and the treachery of outlaws conspire against them.Based on true events, The Cabin at Jackson Hole is engaging historical fiction that reveals the challenges of not only a rough land, but those most resistant to living life fully.
Author : Tom Kizzia
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307587843
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Pilgrim's Wilderness written by Tom Kizzia and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, veteran Alaska journalist, Tom Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077948
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Cabin Faced West written by Jean Fritz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Hamilton's family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton Hill, and life is hard. But when the Hamiltons survive a terrible storm and receive a surprise visit from George Washington, Ann realizes that pioneer life is exciting and special.
Author : Katie Eberhart
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602234205
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Cabin 135 written by Katie Eberhart and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which were wrapped up closely in her experience of living in the house itself. Cabin 135 provided shelter and security, and it also offered lessons on economic disruptions and how ideas of normalcy change. In these pages, we share Eberhart’s experience of digging into the past—figuratively and, in her garden, at an archaeology site, and in a national park, literally. Every layer peeled back, we find, reveals another story, another way of thinking about nature and the past—our own and that of others. In greenhouse and garden, yard, forest, and more distant places—a beach in southeast Alaska, the Arctic coast, Swiss Alps, Iceland, and even Biosphere-2 in Arizona—Eberhart engages with the world around her, and, through it, reflects on her own experiences and journey through life. Offering a journey of wonder and curiosity, through the author’s mind, a house’s structure, and other places, Cabin 135 is a deft combination of memoir and nature writing, rich with thought and full of appreciation for—and profound concerns about—the world and our place in it.
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395947432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Frontier Home written by Raymond Bial and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed West.
Author : Joanne Landers Henry
Publisher : Clerisy Press, Guild Press of Indiana
ISBN 13 : 9781578601073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Log Cabin in the Woods written by Joanne Landers Henry and published by Clerisy Press, Guild Press of Indiana. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts eleven-year-old Oliver Johnson's experiences living in the densely forested wilderness of nineteenth-century central Indiana.
Author : Simon Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743442709
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Frontier House written by Simon Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
Author : R. Glendon Brunk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931229067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Yearning Wild written by R. Glendon Brunk and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how the author, who moved to Alaska to pursue his childhood dream of living in the wilds of the last American frontier, became committed to the cause of wilderness preservation after witnessing environmental depredation there and in his subsequent travels around the world.
Author : Sam Keith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941821237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (212 download)
Download or read book One Man's Wilderness written by Sam Keith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John F. Ross
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553384570
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book War on the Run written by John F. Ross and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England’s dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers’s life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy, but brings a new and provocative perspective on Rogers’s unique vision of a unified continent, one that would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rogers’s principles of unconventional war-making would lay the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in the War of Independence—and prove so compelling that army rangers still study them today. Robert Rogers, a backwoods founding father, was heroic, admirable, brutal, canny, ambitious, duplicitous, visionary, and much more—like America itself.
Author : Lori Van Pelt
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826334930
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Pecker's Revenge and Other Stories from the Frontier's Edge written by Lori Van Pelt and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen stories of colorful western characters and how they are transformed.
Author : Grandmatel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)
Download or read book GRACIE’S STORY written by Grandmatel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was nothing like wilderness living in Kentucky. Outhouse + cow + momma = frazzled momma Log raft + boy + river = danger Mountain Man + snow + slay = bad choice Bad Indians + momma + girl = kidnapping Momma + grandma + squirrel = biscuits & gravy Rain + boy + momma = loblolly Momma + gun + green eyes = chicken & dumplings Gracie’s family left Virginia for homesteading in Kentucky. They were naïve city slickers, but God sent angels to help them. The land had to be cleared and a log cabin built. Through their strong faith in God and a lot of prayer they staked out their homestead and helped to build a community. The angels worked overtime keeping Bobby Joe out of trouble but sometimes they just watched and laughed. The Mountain Men were the “bestest” angels God sent them. Gracie was a feisty little girl almost six when they came. She was an observer and wrote their experiences in her diary when she was nine. The places are real. The last names are people living in the community and the charter members of the church. The fi rst names are my children and grandchildren. The events are fi ctional except for the building of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church which is still there today.
Author : G. E. Sherman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477559161
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Forging North written by G. E. Sherman and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the 19th century, the gold rush is in full swing. A determined young man has left Seattle behind to head north: With the lure of Alaska gold burning bright in his eyes, Thomas Thornton set out on a voyage to find fame and fortune. He left behind all that he had, with a promise to his girl he would return. Thomas soon learned that Alaska had other ideas about his future. With the grit and determination demanded by those that seek to tame Alaska, Thomas vows to see his dreams come true.
